Friday, April 17, 2009
Facebook defriend-estation
Yesterday I got Facebook de-friended by a radical right-wing Republican. I hadn't written anything particularly political on Facebook--just mildly so-- but then a friend of mine wrote in with some stronger opinions, with which I agreed. Then my radical right-wing "friend" (he was a former neighbor of mine) wrote in yelling belligerently in all caps and telling my other (real) friend to move to Cuba. Oh dear, I thought. I don't want it to look like I won't tolerate difference of opinion on my Facebook page (I will, really), but I think I have to de-friend him now because he is being rude and below the belt and going too far. I always hate having to do something that will potentially offend someone, so it was with trembling fingers that I scrolled down my Friends page, looking for his name so I could defriend him. How relieved I was to discover that he had already defriended me! Relieved and a little bit... proud.
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Must be the week for arguing with right-wing yahoos. A right-leaning "friend" of mine insulted someone I'd known since high school -- on MY Facebook -- because she dared to espouse liberal viewpoints in a "sarcastic" tone of voice. This, in the right-winger's viewpoint, merited a personal attack. I was livid.
Politics is hard hard hard between friends of differing viewpoints. Unlike religion, which you can sort of ignore because of the separation of church and state so who cares what you believe, that other person's political beliefs will certainly impact your life if they get their way. Makes it so much harder to ignore. Yet you know your opinion will most likely not succeed in changing someone else's. Sometimes, the friendship isn't worth it. You did (or were about to do) the right thing.
Sounds a lot like my experience, nounsandverbs! I am sorry. Yuck.
Thank you, specules. I honestly had not been trying to start a political fight on my Facebook. I thought this guy took it waaaaaaaaay too far.
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